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THE HAND OF GOD 



The Hand 

of 

God 




As revealed by the light of numbers 

To 

Budd Reeve 

A Servant of the Unseen 






Copyright, 1922, by 
Budd Reeve 

Buxton, No. Dakota 



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NOV 20 1922, 



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INTRODUCTION 



The value of a book is not in its size — it is 
in that which is found in it. The price of this 
publication is not fixed by the amount of paper 
on which it is printed. It is fixed by the 
far-reading light that it throws — a light so 
penetrating, that you can see into and read 
from the world invisible. This unusual feature 
fixes the price. 

As far as known, this is the first publication 
to be put out and advertised under the di- 
rection of an Unseen Power. My part is made 
clear in the title '"A servant of the Unseen,' 
this, and only this, is my part and place. Just 
a common, every day helper in a work of equal 
interest to all, is my part. First, let us be 
sure that we understand each other: then 
keep the record clear. 

If advertising is a good thing to help people 
in business, the book bearing God's name and 
good works is worthy to be advertised in a 
business way, as it will be — from pole to pole — 
and sales pushed accordingly. Advertising for 



vi Introduction 

God is as legitimate as for anyone else. Old . 
and young, regardless of race, occupation or 
education, recognize a world condition knocking 
at the door. 

To answer the call is a business proposition 
as much as it is of prayer. The way it is ans- 
wered means the advancement or end of 
civilization — it means order or anarchy. God 
whom all nations have offended by wars and 
evil ways is The One Knocking. To get right, 
and keep right, He is the one to get acquainted 
.with in a business way, on a working plan. 

The aim of this book is to help point the 
way. One alone can do but very little, but 
everyone can become a power by joining in 
a pull altogether. It is not men, it is not money 
that is needed to bring world peace. It is 
The Right Spirit. This is something to which 
everyone can contribute without expense or 
loss of time. Spirit will do all and bring all 
when put to work in the way of a real start. 

A start means something to pursue — it means 
there is an object on your mind and in your 
heart worth going after. And the larger the 
object the more exciting and interesting the 
pursuit. To destroy the roaring lions of unrest 



Introduction vii 

and their whelps, is a chase in which everyone, 
young and old can join with lasting enthusiasm. 
World harmony that can be hunted right at 
your own door is the largest of all game to 
help capture. 

Instead of something dark and gloomy, 
here is a life pleasure and entertainment, when 
you see it in the right light. A clear-headed 
start to gain world peace, means, all days will 
be happy in the pursuit — it means that pur- 
suit has a charm as great as possession. 

— Budd Reeve. 




The Hand of God 

By Budd Reeve 

In the stripes on the Flag that made our land free, 

The Hand of God, in numbers appear. 

By a plain number plan He puts before man, 

A truth that is doubly clear. 

The six you see there, so spotless and fair, 

Stand for the day of Creation; 

The seven in red are for blood that s been shed, 

To give us our place as a nation. 

The forty-eight stars at the head of the bars 

Are lights from Heaven above ; 

They place before man as only God can, 

The Power of order and love. 

Here is the Flag, forever to be, 

Honored at home and over the sea. 

The reasons for appearing at this particular 
time in this particular way are as many and 
pressing as the American Flag is wonderful. 

The instructions are — "Tell it just as it 
is — and why." 

This is an emergency call from an overtime 
worker. 



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On the 16th of March, 1880, I entered into 
a written promise with a power then unknown, 
to follow the spirit that came to me — and still 
remains. That was over forty-two years ago — 
two years longer than Moses was kept in the 
wilderness with the twelve tribes. I am now 
in the arms of old age — flat on my back; not 
able to lie down or get up — only with greatest 
difficulty; I cannot stand alone or take a 
single step. For over five years I have not 
been able to undress myself and go to bed in 
.a natural way. But with it all, and under it 
all, I am not cast down or unhappy. For 
when I can look back 6,722 years and see the 
Stars and Stripes floating over the Garden of 
Eden, the situation seems more like one of 
poetry and inspiration than one of darkness. 
Instead of being on the way to an endless 
night, it seems more like being on the way to 
the resurrection and endless life. 

There is no doubt about that seen and felt 
here — and why. There is nothing strange or 
imaginary about seeing the Flag over Eden. 
Here is where it belongs by the right of paren- 
tage and birth. It was floating here over the 
earth on the sixth day of Creation when God 



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finished his work by blessing man and telling 
him the way to dominion. But it was only 
visible at that time in principle to the Infinite 
Eye. This is the only flag that comes from and 
through the order of creation with infinite 
conditions supporting it. It is the only flag, 
that is an unfading expression of God's six 
working days and the seventh day on which 
He rested under the stars, that are still shining 
over all His works. 

There is a divine history back of the Stars 
and Stripes — one that brings God's name and 
works into a clear and inspiring light. There 
is but one thing intended to satisfy man. 
There never has been — never can be — and 
never will be but one — and that is walking 
and talking with God. When man has been 
lost in darkness and ignorance from sin, he 
has found his way out by finding God, or 
having God find him. Talking and walking 
with God means finding or being shown the 
way or ways by which He communicates or 
carries on building with man. To gain this 
knowledge is like gaining anything else. It 
calls for work, study and investigation to 
learn the code, or signs, by which God com- 
municates or makes Himself known. 



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The beginning is the foundation of every 
work. This was the first step with God as 
with all under Him. There is no argument to 
be held in reference to the first beginning. 
Cold facts speak for themselves — they are 
for every one to see and think about. No 
matter in what language it is written or by 
what nation it is read, there is but one account 
of the first beginning. 

The first chapter of the Bible gives six days 
as the time in which all things were created. 
( Then follows the seventh day on which God 
rested from His labors. Here we have the 
Infinite works of an Infinite Creator — includ- 
ing the Creator Himself — resting on the num- 
bers six and seven. In a human light, these 
time measures in reference to Creation and 
God's rest foundation, are very puzzling. 

Without something definite in form and 
meaning was revealed of an infinite nature, 
by these time measures, man's relation to the 
future would be dark beyond endurance. It 
is through that which can be seen, felt, and 
touched, like the Flag, that interest is awakened 
in man's connection with the beginning of 
Beginnings. 



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God and His works, of which man is one, 
belong together. God made man to talk to 
and to have man talk to Him. This is shown 
from the fact, that at the beginning, God 
told man what to do and what would be gained 
by it. God's part is an open book; man is 
the one out of line — lagging and dragging 
behind. When man fills his part, everything 
will be in grand and glorious harmony. To 
lead man into action, God has a Flag to follow 
with six white stripes and seven red ones, in 
harmony with the six days of Creation and 
the seventh day on which He rested. All the 
brains ever in human heads could not origi- 
nate and design this Flag. It was on the way 
coming for many centuries before man got 
here — So he could not be the designer of some- 
thing before he was made. 

There is not a human thought in the Stars 
and Stripes showing their full meanng. You 
say the forty-eight stars represent forty-eight 
states. Very true — but this is not all. The 
stars were created on the fourth day. Divide 
forty-eight by four, the day of creation, and 
the answer is four times twelve. Here you 
have the twelve months in the year, the twelve 



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tribes of Israel, the twelve disciples, and the 
twelve judges, called jurors, to judge the 
truth in a Court of Justice — all older than 
the states and in harmony with the forty- 
eight stars on the Flag. 

Here is a combination embracing the visible 
and the invisible that makes the Stars and 
Stripes a very much larger affair than standing 
for states alone. Multiply the twelve chosen 
tribes by the day the stars were created, and 
you have 'Irsael now and forever more' 
in the forty-eight stars that were in existence 
long centuries before America was known. 
The influence of the stars and the days of 
Creation have been over every thing since 
God rested from His labors. 

Instead of contending over Bible teaching 
in public schools it would be patriotic and 
strictly in harmony with religious thought to 
call attention to the six days of Creation and 
God 's day of rest on the American Flag. Here 
Bible instruction can be advanced as an open 
truth, in the foundation of free America, 
without religious prejudice and friction. 

Think of the many millions in the centuries 



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past, and the unknown millions now, wondering 
why six and seven should serve as foundation 
numbers in the order of creation. There is 
a law and a reason for every thing — especially 
with God in building on lines to meet Infinite 
harmony. Six and seven serve this end as 
no other numbers can. 

It is called the American Flag, and the 
thirteen stripes are supposed to stand for the 
thirteen colonies alone. The evidence on this 
point is very interesting as well as far reaching. 
By looking back six thousand, four hundred 
and twenty years from the beginning, you 
can see a band of Pilgrims landing on the 
shores of an American wilderness in the year 
A. D. 1620. They did not come for conquest, 
they did not come looking for gold or oil. They 
came to work six days in every week and rest 
from their labors and worship God on the 
seventh. Six and seven was stamped on every 
heart before starting; as it had been on the 
hearts of their ancestors for centuries back. 
The invisible Flag bearing the six days of 
Creation and God 's day of rest, was uncon- 
sciously concealed in every bosom before sail- 
ing. The Bible is not an American Book. 



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They did not come here to find that. They had 
that before starting. The six days of labor 
and the seventh of rest, that originated with 
God — now on the flag — had full possession of 
them. 

These numbers that not only cover many 
things; but all things are an ever present law 
to be observed to promote world advancement. 
They stand for industry and worship — not 
for thirteen colonies alone. Six of labor and 
the seventh of worship was a sacred law with 
the Pilgrim Fathers, before the Colonies were 
even a dream. While they were working and 
praying, God was busy preparing the way 
and measuring the time when they should 
come to the realization of their hopes. It 
was all planned and worked out by the One 
in whom they put their trust. 

Where God is interested, it makes everything 
interesting and in order. His part in leading 
the way for the Pilgrims to reach America, 
reads like delivering Israel out of Egypt. 
That which He planned and measured in 
advance is as interesting as a Fairy Tale. His 
steps are longer than man's steps. Thirteen 
steps by God — twelve years apart — is the 



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time measure from the landing of the May- 
flower to 1776, when the spirit of Independence 
broke into an inextinguishable flame, to bring 
forth a new nation under a new flag — a nation 
to become one of the greatest and strongest 
on Earth, — to advance under a world emblem 
reflecting world light. The Flag that came 
with the new nation is strengthening and in- 
spiring because it came through the One who 
stands for Infinite strength and Infinite wis- 
dom. It is His flag. It shows the Hand 
that created the stars — His days of labor and 
rest. It is not a local emblem. It was de- 
signed by the Creator to be in harmony with 
natural order to appear when the world is 
beyond Man's control — as it is now. 

The call to study and follow the Flag will 
be easily understood and appreciated, when 
told why forty-two years have dropped out 
of my life, like a gray hair out of my head. 
In these years, man has made astonishing 
progress in communicating to and with himself 
at a long distance, on scientific and musical 
lines. But in communicating with God, he 
has not advanced one millionth part of an 
inch since the death of Moses. Science is 



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as open to use in talking to God as with any 
one else. Man thinks and talks a great deal 
about the Supreme Being; but when it comes 
to talking with Him, he is still in the dark 
ages. To get man's attention, God has been 
obliged to force Himself on to him, through 
some great miracle or unnatural way. Man's 
effort in a scientific way to communicate with 
God, has been neglected on account of the 
time it takes to comprehend the plan on which 
God communicates. There are hungry souls 
on every side asking questions to which they 
get no answer. 

When I signed a promise forty-two years 
ago, I did not know I was binding myself, — 
body, soul, and mind, — to become a life ser- 
vant to the invisible. But such is the fact. 
No prisoner wearing leg irons and hand-cuffs 
could be held more securely than I have been, 
and still am, by unseen chains. This is not a 
complaint — far from it. God has a right to 
call on me for any service or bind me to any 
servitude He may see fit. The only question 
is — "How well can I serve?' It takes time 
to learn the ways and get acquainted with 
the plan. After this, working with and under 



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the invisible is easy and pleasing. Especialy, 
where it acts as a guide that you can under- 
stand and depend upon. When it reaches 
this stage, it is like a traveler being shown the 
places of interest in a great city, wherein he 
is a stranger. There are many strangers wan- 
dering in the land invisible. Knowledge of 
God has always been man's greatest desire 
and need, which will continue to grow until 
man talks with God as with one of his neigh- 
bors. This is a natural state to hope for if 
man is ever to fill the promised place in the 
image of his Maker. After signing the promise 
with the unseen, the work was put before me, 
that I am now putting before you. While 
the subject is infinite in size, light follows 
working on it the same as any other subject. 
By following Gods way to gain dominion 
over everything, results will care for themselves. 
This is why a plan was fixed by which to work, 
and a standard to follow to reach life's great- 
est object in a battle to be gained under the 
Flag that stands for Justice and Right. As 
long as the Flag is up for this, there is hope 
ahead. But if it goes down, the call is to 
redouble effort and chance life if necessary. 



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There can be no serving two masters under 
the Flag that came through the order of Cre- 
ation — that floated first over the Garden of 
Eden. The call is to restore the whole Earth, 
under this Flag to the original state of Eden 
before man fell. This will cause happiness 
to reign supreme in every home. 

After signing the promise many number 
lights were put before me showing many things. 
The first to impress me was number Forty. 
This number appears three times in three 
different and very important relations to man 
in the Bible. First, there was a flood of forty 
days. Then forty years with twelve tribes 
in the wilderness. After this, Christ came 
fasting forty days and choosing twelve dis- 
ciples in harmony with the tribes and the 
months of the year. Why is just forty and 
twelve observed by God and His Son in the 
opening of great works? The meaning would 
be far beyond human understanding, if not 
on lines of science, that connect God with 
human existence — within human reasoning. In 
its true place and meaning forty can be seen 
as an unfading light in the window of time to 



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save souls from wandering into endless dark- 
ness. 

Understanding God, depends upon under- 
standing the code by which he works and 
communicates. When this is understood, it 
is like reading a book or newspaper through 
letter signs. In teaching a child to read the 
start is made by putting before it letter signs — 
some times in the way of pictures or blocks for 
play things, where "A'" stands for ape, 'C 
for cat, 'D' for dog — and so on until every 
letter has a picture sign in the child's mind 
to remain forever. While the way is interest- 
ing the child in pictures, it is not only learning 
the alphabet but laying the foundation for 
future education. 

It is not wild imagination to think of com- 
municating with God on lines of science. As 
long as we have a code introduced by God 
Himself, connecting His name with a building 
plan, it is not only natural, but strictly in 
order, to read from it, — or, at least, try to 
understand that which is put before us. Man 
was made to think. That is why his mind 
has been opened to every subject, until thought 
waves are now in a state of activity covering 



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every field and subject. Thinking has been 
going on to such an extent that man is trans- 
mitting messages and music by waves alone. 
One name is wireless — the other radio. 

Being made up largely of the invisible, man 
takes to his greater nature as a bird to its 
wings. While he has developed a system to 
communicate with and about himself, he has 
overlooked the fact, that God has a wireless 
system beyond anything man has yet ap- 
proached. God's system has been before my 
eyes to such an extent, that years have passed 
like days, leaving me where I am now, far 
behind with an unfinished work. 

According to my plan, a book of laws should 
have been in circulation before the close of 
1920, explaining scientifically the number sys- 
tem by which God builds. But the invisible 
planned differently, that is why I am now 
appearing on a shorter line in a shorter way — 
leaving the more complete work to come later. 

To bring the Invisible within human grasp, 
seems like trying to escape the grave or, like 
going up into the clouds and jumping off into 
eternity. It would not be possible to spend 
orty-two years looking for light without so me- 



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thing more than human strength back of the 
search. Under ordinary conditions the chances 
would be too great to assume. But where 
the object is to connect a life and time pro- 
position, chances cannot be considered. The 
object is too great to hesitate over. 

God works out His own plans in His own 
way, leaving man to work accordingly. There 
are no stopping places in eternity — only mind 
rests, to get clearer and higher views of the 
Infinite. To know that God looks ahead and 
plans for man is strength beyond measure. 
To know this and why, is next in importance 
to life itself. Under the hand of Time, man 
is a growing proposition — both as to numbers 
and intelligence — and he must look after him- 
self as well as be looked after by a higher power. 
With a natural growing force driving him on, 
knowledge in reference to his time relations 
determines his size and place in life. 

Time has a place in all things. Whether 
it is music, day labor, running a railroad or 
a bake-oven; time is always under considera- 
tion to avoid rail accidents and keep the cake 
from burning. Whether it was flood days, 
years in the wilderness, or fast days strict 



16 The Hand of God 



attention was paid to time to bring infinite 
design within fixed law. 

There is so much in the relationship between 
time and life if I could have but one thing, 
and the choice was between all the money 
on earth and the meaning and place of forty 
in God's number code, I would take the forty 
knowledge, if the choice meant dying in the 
poorhouse and filling an unmarked pauper's 
grave. Knowledge is good at all times and 
in all places. This is not true of money. 
That you can not always take with you — and 
when it is left, it is often for others to quarrel 
over and corrupt good manners. 

When the wireless connecting the seen with 
the unseen is in full operation, and the re- 
lations between life and time can be read by 
the light of science, all doubts as to the sys- 
tem will disappear, and instead of having 
doubts and being surprised at the change, the 
wonderment will be, why man should remain 
in ignorance so long in reference to that of 
greatest value. 

With God's code before him, why should 
it not have been in use by preachers and teach- 
ers centuries ago? Why should man remain 



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in a rut, until time close the rut up and force 
him out of it? This is the surprise. 

The fact that forty was used on three different 
building occasions of infinite importance to 
stand against Eternity, makes it strictly in 
order to look for reasons. That is why we 
are at this particular place at this particular 
time looking into the ways of the All-Wise 
One. We are looking here, because there is 
some thing necessary to know, to do, and to 
have. It is because man must constantly 
look, work, and keep working to reach the 
promised place in the image of his Maker. 
This demand comes from life's relation to 
Time, of which coming man is a part. Time 
is a Creator and a destroyer, within itself, 
through itself but not of immortality. Through 
all time there will be something left — and 
this will be immortality. 

It is through the indestructible principle 
of conscious life that knowledge is gained of 
time's place and changes. It is through this 
self-existing principle that life speaks for time 
and time for life. Their voices reach us 
together. Without life, time would be the 
most useless and meaningless of all things. 



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It is life that looks over the past and into the 
future, far beyond present existence. This is 
because Time is the oldest of all ancestors. 
And as a father, he is the developer of life. 
It is through the test of time that the quality 
and nature of life is judged. 

Blessed be time. If there was an end to 
it, man's growth would stop and God would 
have limitations. There would be no Eternity 
in which to live and grow to enjoy endless 
life that holds endless happiness. Eternity 
• does not come from God as a subject for man 
to conquer. It is something that man na- 
turally thinks about as a near relation that he 
expects to spend many days with. 

The time measures put before man, by 
God, are intended to develop his understanding 
in an earthly way as well as on life to come. 
Six days of labor and the seventh of rest, is 
recognized as from a divine source, by every 
one who works — or doesn't work — because it 
fits and meets life's needs. The forty flood 
days came to correct evil ways. The forty 
years in the wilderness was to discipline and 
educate a certain people in reference to a 
Divine building plan. Then Christ came fast- 



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ing forty days and choosing twelve disciples 
to further enlarge man's mind as to the ways 
of the Invisible. 

Through knowledge of the number code, 
God's hand can be seen in human affairs. 
By this light, the clouds are pierced between 
the seen and the unseen, through which shines 
the star of hope. By this light, God's Hand 
is like a sign board by the wayside, that every- 
one can see and read who have eyes and know 
the code. Learning the system is like learning 
to read from sign expressions of any kind 
that stand for a language. God starts like 
teaching a child to read. He uses easy and 
simple ways to connect man with Himself in 
infinite building. Knowing His way is all 
needed. Finding this part is the object before 
us. It is profoundly impressive to look back 
over three hundred years and see God holding 
out a supporting hand to the Pilgrim Fathers, 
as they leave the gang plank of the Mayflower 
to commence life in an American wilderness. 

God does things in harmony with Himself, 
that no one else can do. After extending 
the hand of support He turned to measuring 
time with His legs in the direction of the Flag 



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coming with thirteen stripes on it. He fixed 
the time by His footsteps when the spirit 
would make clear His part in the coming of 
the Mayflower. It is as easy to count thirteen 
steps twelve years apart, covering the time 
from the Mayflower to the year 1776, as it is 
to count the steps of a farmer, whose legs 
reach three feet, in stepping off a piece of 
ground to find a line on which to build a fence 
or measure acres to plant a crop. God is the 
only one who measures time by stepping it 
, off. Other steppers use their legs to get over 
distance, without reference to time alone. 

God's part in the American government is 
made strikingly clear by that which follows 
His thirteen steps in harmony with the years 
that mark the beginning of a new nation, in 
a new land, under a new, old flag, that can 
be called His own; old in principle as the days 
of creation. The foundation and duration of 
the American Republic is a marvel in the eyes 
of all other nations. This is because they 
are not aware of its real founder — of the One 
who started it and keeps a watchful eye over 
it. America's strength, greatness, and grow- 
ing power in world affairs is from the Invisible — 



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not from the foresight and knowledge of men 
called statesmen. 

The thirteen steps taken to fix the time to 
start a new nation in a new land under a new 
Flag in harmony with the order of Creation, 
was not the end of God's part. It was only 
the beginning of the real Beginning. The 
All-Wise Director did not go to sleep and 
wait for a Nation to grow, He looked ahead 
and prepared for that coming, as something 
in which He was interested and would be 
needed to meet. When it came to forming a 
government by people who never had one of 
their own before, who had to care for and keep 
one up, the Real Founder knew that help 
and protection would be needed to perpetuate 
it — and when the demand came from the War 
of 1812 for three steps more to save that gained 
from 1776, He was found waiting under the 
Stars and Stripes to save the government 
founded in His name. Sixteen steps from the 
landing of the Mayflower covers 192 years. 
Here is another measure in proof of God's 
interest and care. Where He is interested 
harmony is the evidence of his part and pre- 
sence. Sixteen steps from the Mayflower 



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reached the year that the 7 Mother Country' 
— so called — had decided that ships carrying 
the American Flag must be put out of business. 
It looked easy and sure to "Mother" when 
she had 1061 ships, and the new nation, under 
the Stars and Stripes, only had twenty, all 
told, and one of these had been sunken. This 
left 'Mother' with fifty five to one under 
God's Flag. 

David had a sling-shot to stand against 
one great big brute of a man, who could have 
carried him off in one hand — that is, if he 
could have gotten hold of him. He did not 
have fifty-five to go against, and, if worse 
became worse, being young and swift of foot, 

David could have retreated away from one 
too big and clumsy to catch him. Think of 
fifty-five ships to meet one in a war on the 
ocean. Some of the best American minds 
looked upon war at that time as suicide. But 
the spirit that brought Independence was 
here and could not be resisted. It was not 
really known on either side that God was at 
the front to hold up the Flag bearing His 
days of labor and rest. This he kept to Him- 
self and let them come on. His presence 
can now be seen from results that will never 
fade. 



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That gained by the War of 1812 is as much 
to rejoice over as that which came from 1776. 
For without the fruit of 1812, that gained 
from 1776, would have been lost. The move 
to drive the Stars and Stripes off the ocean 
was a move to kill America by starvation. 
This was not in harmony with the constitu- 
tional guarantee of liberty and the pursuit 
of happiness. Therefore, it did not work. 

It is a glorious light that reveals God's 
hand on this occasion, as well as occasions 
past, and above all, to see Him waiting for 
conditions to come. Let it be remembered, 
that the day of inaugurating American Presi- 
dents is under Divine selection — the third 
month and the fourth day are in harmony 
with the third and fourth days of Creation. 
Grass and the fruit trees yielding fruit ap- 
peared on the third day and the stars on the 
the fourth. 

James Madison was the fourth President. 
Multiply his presidential number by four, 
the day he was inaugurated, and the answer 
is sixteen — the number of God 's footsteps from 
the Mayflower to the War of 1812. Multiply 
the Presidential number by three, and the 



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answer is twelve — the length of God's footsteps 
in years. Everything is in harmony here, from 
the length and number of the footsteps to the War 
President 's birthday. Twelve times sixteen are 
one hundred and ninety-two, whether connected 
with God or man. James Madison was born 
on the sixteenth day of the third month. Three 
times sixteen are forty-eight — the number of 
stars now on the American Flag can be seen 
in advance of their coming in the birth date 
of the President who served through the War 
of 1812. The fact that God looks ahead and 
prepares for the future, is not only man's hope 
on earth, but his salvation in time to come. 

We are told that the hairs of our head are 
numbered. If there is any question about 
this, God's footsteps will remove all doubt. 
That brought by the Mayflower means the 
re-appearance of the Burning Bush. Not a 
light seen by only one lone man in a lonely 
place, but one at your own door to acquaint 
all man-kind with God's presence and power. 
This is the meaning of the Mayflower. 

Starting a new nation in a new land — wild 
and untamed — to stand against time — to be- 
come the greatest among the nations on earth 



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is not the work of man's brain alone. Some 
one did some thinking and planning long in 
advance of the nation's birth, beside man. 
Who was it? Some one planned for its coming 
and how it should come. Look at facts in 
their order. If you have never been able to 
recognize the Hand of God ; if you never spent 
any pleasant hours in compainonship with 
Him, here is your opportunity. The Pilgrim 
Fathers can be called a ship-load of emigrants 
gathered together by The One who made 
the land and sea, and planted them over here 
as an introduction to the coming Invisible. 
They were five years under star number 36 
on the fourth zone of century time, preparing 
to come. The year, the month, and the day 
of their coming was all planned to cast a light 
on God's care over man to grow clearer with 
time. 

The colonies never thought of waiting until 
their numbers reached thirteen, in harmony 
with six and seven found in the first chapter 
of the Bible — denoting finished work by God — 
and then form a federation to grow into an 
independent nation under Divine protection. 
This was not their thought. That which came 



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came unplanned on their part. The spirit 
moved them at a certain time in a certain 
way and the Declaration of Independence 

was signed. 

Why on a certain day? You may never 
have thought the day of signing was a part 
of the Invisible plan. It was the fourth day 
of the seventh month — the dav the stars were 
created and the day God rested from His 
labors. Four times seven are twenty-eight 
and four and seven are eleven. Eleven and 
1 twenty-eight are thirty-nine. Here are three 
times thirteen in the day of signing. Multi- 
ply thirty-nine by four, the day of signing, 
and the answer is 156 — the years from signing 
back to the Mayflower — whether it is landing 
or signing, coming or returning, the harmony 
with God's footsteps is unbroken. 

There is nothing imaginary about four times 
thirty nine found in the day of signing, being 
the same in step measure from the 4th of 
July, 1776, back to the Mayflower. 

One war does not mean the end of all wars. 
One is sometimes the sign that more will have 
to follow to hold that gained. Three years 
before the war of 1812, God had a double 



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vision. He saw it would be only four steps 
from 1812 when there would be a condition 
involving the Stars and Stripes, and He com- 
menced preparing to meet it twenty days 
before the inauguration of the fourth President. 
The inauguration on the 4th of March, 1809, 
fixed the starting point of God's double move 
to preserve the Flag and the nation, that 
came in His name. 

There are times when the Head of all Heads 
has to concentrate, the same as other workers. 
This was one of them. Multiply the presi- 
dential number four by the day of inauguration 
and the answer is sixteen — the steps from the 
landing to 1812. Multiply four by three, the 
inauguration month, and answer is twelve — 
the step in year lengths. This harmony shows 
that God saw events following events and 
arranged to meet them under a light to appear 
later. 

The double vision that God had three years 
before the War of 1812, was the birth of a 
baby boy twenty days before the fourth in- 
auguration in 1809, and the other, was the 
inauguration itself. The birthday of this child 
stands as an event in history never to be erased. 



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It is not every event that serves to present 
God in His true light. But here is one that 
shows His hand beyond doubt. When James 
Madison was inaugurated on the 4th of March 
the infant was twenty days old, in harmony 
with the day of the month the Mayflower 
arrived, and the twelfth day on which. he was 
born in harmony with the month of landing. 
The day James Madison took office, God's 
hand is identified by His number signs on 
the infant in poverty, twenty days old. The 
twentieth day of the twelfth month marks 
the landing of the Mayflower. 

Twenty times twelve are two hundred and 
forty. Add twenty steps by God to the year 
1620 and the answer is 1860. Readers of 
American History can see what this year holds 
for God's foresight in planning to save the 
Flag, now floating over a United nation. Here, 
the poverty baby, twenty days old on the 4th 
of March, 1809, can be seen within just twenty 
steps from the Mayflower to his nomination 
for the Presidency in 1860 — to fill the great 
office held by James Madison, the war presi- 
dent of 1812. Only God, Himself, knew of 
this planning. All can see it now by looking 
back. 



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Who in this day and generation is expecting 
to talk with God and have God talk with him? 
With all the intelligence gathered from the 
ages; with all that has come through science, 
research, and investigation, present man is 
as worthy of recognition and as capable of 
weighing conditions as the man in a state 
of nature — before the present day of light. 

We read what God said to different ones 
at different times, and what they said to Him — 
how He planned what to do, and told them 
how to do it. He and Moses held arguments 
as openly as a regular planning committee. 
When He told Moses what to do, Moses said, 
'They will not believe me, nor hearken unto 
my voice, for they will say, 'The Lord hath 
not appeared unto thee' ' \ 

Then the Lord had to perform great miracles 
and give Moses power to do the same to im- 
press him to act. By many signs and in many 
ways the Lord hath appeared unto me; and is 
appearing unto every one every day; only 
they can not see and read His hand. 

The poverty baby, twenty days old on the 
4th of March, 1809, is a living sign of God's 
hand, clear beyond all question; one that 



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all can read and understand. Time and con- 
ditions speak for themselves. They speak for 
the visible and the invisible, as well as all 
other things. They make suggestions that 
only time and conditions can make, and only 
time can prove. 

Necessity is usually the first call to start 
anything. Desire, without necessity, is some 
times the active agency. After starting, look- 
ing and working are in order to find God's 
ways of communicating. As far as found, 
there is but one intelligent system connecting 
the seen with the unseen, and that is by the 
number code. When events come clearly con- 
necting human affairs with time measures 
fixed by God, there is reason for looking, 
thinking, and believing. Twelve and forty 
are number lights of great age in the temple 
of Time— put there for saints, sinners, and 
all others, to read by, work by, and live by. 
These are lights for the wise and the unwise 
to ponder over and study. Knowing why 
twelve and forty are lights, is living in the 
sunshine of God's wisdom, which is the great- 
est of all places and privileges to have. 

Numbers that connect man with the Infinite 



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on both time and life lines are infinitely im- 
portant to know about and understand. In 
one year, there are twelve months. In forty 
years there are four hundred eighty months. 
Under the law of harmony, the numbers found 
here stand for centuries in the Infinite building 
plan. The twelve tribes that stand for life 
lines are very much older than forty years, 
but when multiplied by forty the answer is 
the same — four hundred and eighty. Whether 
it is centuries or seconds, forty times twelve 
are four hundred and eighty. 

In reading and working by the foundation 
lights, combinations in endless form keep com- 
ing and multiplying, until after a life spent 
in looking and combining, only the nature 
and meaning of the work begins to appear. 
To find and keep correct bearings, it must 
be kept in mind, that building with God rests 
upon mathematical and musical lines in har- 
mony with the stars. From this knowledge, 
reading and time measuring is conducted 
through the Invisible. The star that is the 
foundation of hope is the foundation of In- 
finite building. For without hope, there would 
be nothing to build for or on. 



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Man was made to be in harmony with the 
different parts of creation. When he knows 
how to place himself in this relation, he will 
be a real child of light. The foundation 
lights and ways of communicating are the 
same now as of old, but that communicated 
is as different as that found under headings in 
a newspaper. The sign language used thou- 
sand of years ago is in daily and hourly use 
now in presenting that of immediate interest. 

Why certain things are so, is the question. 
Going through the Red Sea and being pre- 
served by the Hand of God is wonderfully 
impressive. But it is just as impressive, in- 
teresting and inspiring, and comes nearer the 
heart and home, to know that God is looking 
after man now just as much as he ever did, 
only in different ways. Knowing this, is the 
strength back of life. 

The time will never come when forty times 
twelve will not be four hundred and eighty. 
It will never come, when four hundred and eighty 
will not be century time on each division of the 
star. It will never come, when star signs, 
installed by the Creator, free from taxes, 
assessments, and repairs, will not be founda- 



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tion lights to guide all generations for all time 
to come. The Shining Star that stands for 
hope and anchorage in the work of world build- 
ing and life development is a study yet un- 
fathomed. To know why you look to the star 
for bearings and how to follow them there, 
is engineering from the Invisible. 

Knowledge is light. If you had a copy of 
every book on earth — printed in every language 
— and you could not read a word in any of 
them, you would be in darkness so far as books 
are concerned. Two rooms can adjoin each 
other where one might be brilliantly lighted 
and the other, totally dark. Open the door 
called wisdom, between them and light will 
fill both. This is true of the visible and in- 
visible. While God's side is brilliantly lighted, 
pitiable darkness may be on man 's side, because 
of his inability to read. Open the door be- 
tween the seen and unseen, that swings on 
hinges of infinite intelligence and light from 
God's side will clear away the darkness on 
man's side — that is if man is a sign reader. 
If he is not, by opening the door into the 
long hallway that leads to understanding the 
works and ways of God, and following it far 



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enough, lights will come to him from places 
and out of things where he least expected it. 

To find the All- Wise One you must look 
for Him at all times and in all places, and 
make it your business to study and try to 
understand Him. God had to appear to man 
before man could find or know anything about 
Him. He appeared in certain ways which 
are still unchanged. These unchanged ways 
are the ones to study and follow to find the 
original Head. No matter what God's marks 
. are on, if He put them there they stand for 
light. If you can read His signs, you can 
read His plans. This is the Supreme ad- 
vantage of understanding the sign language. 

Whether it concerns nations, tribes, or in- 
dividuals, everything is made clear by the 
same light under the same head. Talking 
with God is inspiring and elevating above 
all other things, because He is different from 
all others to talk with. His works and ways 
make lasting impressions. 

When states were boiling over and guns 
were being prepared to roar, read His number 
signs on the poverty baby, that were puc there 
when he was born, and you will see what God 



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had been doing long in advance to meet con- 
ditions that came. He did not make any 
guns, but He looked after having a man specially 
prepared to look after their use. He did not 
wait until the war came on. He knew it was 
coming and started in time to have a man 
grow up for His service. 

He had called a man centuries before to deliver 
a people out of bondage. Here was another 
case where human beings in bondage were 
being bought and sold on account of their 
color. This was a situation like that of Israel 
— something for the Father of All to look after — 
not for men called statesmen. Statesmen are 
sometimes more human in their ways than 
any one else. The business of a statesman is 
usually to bring his state out ahead, right 
or wrong. God's plan is to have justice and 
right prevail. So He planned the coming 
of a baby and put His sign numbers on him 
so every one could know who had a hand in 
preserving the nation under one Flag. 

The twelve and twenty numbers put on 
this baby at birth, in harmony with the day 
and month of the Mayflower arrival, are also 
in harmony with God's footsteps from the 



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Mayflower to the year 1860 — when the poverty 
baby was nominated for the Presidency of 
the United States. In one day, there are 
twenty four hours. In twenty days there 
are four hundred eighty hours. This was the 
baby 's age in hours on the fourth day of March, 
1809, when James Madison was inaugurated. 
Multiply his age in days by two, the month 
in which he was born, and the answer is forty. 
Here is harmony with the flood days, the years 
in the wilderness and the fast days. His age 
in hours, when the fourth president was in- 
augurated, was in harmony with century time 
on the star; also with the months spent by 
the tribes in the wilderness. Multiply forty, 
found in his birth date, by twelve, the day he 
was born, and the answer comes again four 
hundred and eighty. Here is one of God's 
great number lights shining in Him and through 
Him, that lit the dark years of Israel in the 
wilderness. There can certainly be no mistake, 
about seeing God 's hand in all this arrangement 

But this is not all. There is more that is 
very convincing. Multiplication shows much 
but addition adds to clearness. He was born 
in the year 1809. Add to the birth year, 



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twelve and forty — you can call it twelve dis- 
ciples and the fast of forty days, or, you can 
call it twelve tribes and the forty years in the 
wilderness. It makes no difference. The har- 
mony is all the same. Add twelve and forty 
to the years 1809 and the answer is 1861. 
You certainly have history before you here. 
This brings you to the inauguration of the 
sixteenth President born on the twelfth day 
of the month. Multiply his presidential num- 
ber by three, the month he was inaugurated, 
and the answer is forty-eight, the stars now 
on the American Flag. Multiply twelve, the 
day he was born by four, the day he was 
inaugurated, and the answer is forty-eight, 
the states now in the American Union. Here 
is a double appearance of the stars now on 
the American F ag coming at one and the 
same inauguration. This never happened be- 
fore and can never happen again. There can 
be but one sixteenth President. It was at 
this particular inaugural that God planned 
to make the Flag doubly strong as to place 
and meaning. The double forty eight, found 
on this occasion, stands for ninety six stars, 
the number of stars in four hundred and eighty 



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years, or in four hundred and eighty hours. 
Here is all the light needed to convince the 
investigator of God's hand in support of our 
Nation and Government. The ninety six stars 
found in the sixteenth inaugural are a reality, 
revealing the life of an uncommon man in an 
uncommon way. 

While forty is a common number, it fills 
an uncommon place. It is the foundation of 
mathematical and musical harmony found upon 
the star. Divide forty by the five points on 
the star, and the answer is five time divisions 
of four hundred and eighty years each. In 
four hundred and eighty years there are 
ninety six stars, all found in the sixteenth 
inaugural and the markings on the poor baby. 
Ninety six is not only the stars in four hundred and 
eighty years, but it is twelve octaves in months 
found in an octave of years. Multiply four 
hundred and eighty, his age in hours, when 
twenty days old, by two, the month in which 
he was born, and the answer is nine hundred 
and sixty — the hours of the flood and the 
hours of the fast. Multiply nine hundred 
and sixty by the star, and the answer is four 
thousand and eight hundred — the years from 



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Adam to Christ. Ninety six is a wonderful 
light — all the light needed to give man his 
bearings in life. Multiply it by the ten com- 
mandments and it again places before you the 
flood and the fast. Multiply four hundred 
and eighty, the hours in his life, when twenty 
days old, by the ten commandments, and the 
answer is four thousand and eight hundred. 
Divide this number by three, the inaugural 
month, and the answer is one thousand and 
six hundred. Divide it by four, the inaugural 
day, and the answer is one thousand and two 
hundred. Here we find the immortal sixteen 
and twelve found in his presidential number 
and birth day, stretching over the centuries 
from Adam to the Star of Bethlehem. 

In four thousand and eight hundred years 
there are six octaves in the centuries, in har- 
mony with the six days of Creation, and the 
forty eight stars on the American Flag — in 
century measure. Multiply the stripes on the 
Flag by four, the day the stars were created, 
and the day he was inaugurated, and the 
answer is fifty two, his age when he took the 
oath of office. Multiply his age by three, the 
month he entered office, and the answer is 



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one hundred fifty six, the years from the 
Mayflower to the year of Independence. We 
could read number combinations on this man 
so long God could not keep you awake to 
hear them all. 

He was fifty two years and twenty days 
o 1 d when inaugurated. The twenty days fur- 
nish the time combination that unlocks the 
door to his life. Multiply twenty by three, 
the inauguration month, and the answer is 
sixty, — the seconds in a minute and the minutes 
n an hour. 

He was called to the presidency, when only 
God could save the nation. He was called 
to face a divided union and a rebellion as 
fierce as fires inside and out could make it. 
Never were more men killed in a Civil War 
where one state took the blood of another. 
The term nation of that started in 1861 will 
forever stand as a world wonder. 

As years go by and times change, the life 
o r the sixteenth president born on the twelfth 
day of the month, will continue to grow more 
marvelous. It will expand more and more 
beyond the comprehension of those who can 
not read the number code and see God's 



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hand as a directing power. When the in- 
visible becomes visible all will be clear and 
easily understood. In human eyes and under 
human measurements, the sixteenth president 
with whom came ninety six stars is an un- 
accountable wonder. For when they place 
him by the side of ordinary men and try to 
account for what he did, they get lost and 
find themselves wandering in darkness. 

He is described as a statesman with rugged 
features and a sad face, a man of great patience, 
rock ribbed against criticism and abuse. He 
was all this and more. Only, he was not a 
statesman and never pretended to be one. 
He had only one thought — and that was God's 
thought — the one God prepared him to have. 
This was, to save the American Nation under 
the Stars and Stripes. This is all there was 
to his life and work. It was to meet the 
fire and flames of war and quiet the minds of 
misguided men, called statesmen, of which he 
never claimed to be one. He entered upon 
office when the nation was on fire and under 
fire. He came as a fire-fighter against fire- 
eaters. His mind was on putting out a fire, 
not on state craft or politics. He never made 



42 The Hand of God 



any claims to greatness v or wisdom. He per- 
formed a duty as a servant under God for all 
man kind. This was his nrssion. It speaks 
for itself without explanation or comment. One 
God — One Nation — One Flag, was the light 
before and over him. 

Through the Invisible you can now look 
back and see what he saw in 1861. As a per- 
sonal, living soul of an infinite combination 
he naturally grows in esteem and appreciat on ; 
and will continue to grow until the invisible 
is generally recognized as an ntelligent work- 
ing part in a universal building plan. 

He brings that which only the invisible can 
reveal. Instead of being ended, his life is 
just beginning under God's lights. The In- 
visible is not a new thought. While it is world 
wide and an over ruling power, it is something 
just developing to bring an entire change in 
educational and church teaching. The time is 
coming, if a school teacher is asked why 1776 
and 1861 are spoken of as having a different 
spirit from other years, he will give the reason 
through the number code by showing the re- 
lation of life and events to time — not by events 
standing alone, or through man's wisdom 



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alone. While the invisible is always present 
and concerns everybody and everything, 
it is the least understood on scientific lines 
of any subject of its size and importance. 

Where school is opened with prayer and 
gospel hymns the invisible is a part of daily 
education. But how much can they really 
tell about it when asked to explain. Congress 
and State Legislatures open with prayer to 
the Invisible. But why and how did we be- 
come a Nation, and why and how are we to 
continue a Nation? Who is prepared to make 
this clear? If the teacher knows, he will be 
able to show God's hand as the clearest and 
most prominent part in human affairs. When 
he becomes a real up-to-date teacher he will 
be able to read and explain the number signs 
to little children, to advance classes, and to 
all the parents. The system will be general. 
Under advanced conditions, the Bible will 
be one of the most freely used and popular 
books in the public schools, — when teachers 
can correctly explain and interpret it. 

The Good Book has many startling and 
wonderful stories in connection with God's 
works and miracles. It tells of a baby being 



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found alone by a pond in the bulrushes in a 
cradle put together with pitch,- — that became 
a great liberator. This was centuries ago. 
But there have been miraculous babies since 
then of great interest and importance in con- 
nection with present life and the affairs of 
our government as a liberator. The poor 
baby that became the sixteenth President of 
the United States is one of the marvelous kind. 
When the coming teacher presents this child 
by the code marks on him, a light will appear, 
never before seen in the school room, showing 
the way to world harmony and progressive 
building. The teacher will be able to show 
from the life of this boy, that passing out of 
physical existence is not death. Under the 
code the sixteenth President will be recognized 
as still in life, and so to remain forever. There 
will be a charm about the school room and 
teaching under the code that does not exist now. 

The spirit of 1861 will open up an interest 
in American history that never existed before 
and can only be gained through knowledge of 
the invisible. When the pupil asks the spirit 
of this year, the teacher will also commence 
to ask questions. He will ask, 'Who was 



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the sixteenth President and when was he born ? ' 
This will open up a world subject connecting 
everything from God down to the present 
hour — including future time. There will be 
subject matter enough here to fill many lec- 
tures in the school room and out. 

Reading the code means entering into new 
life on the same old earth. When the teacher 
is asked to explain the spirit of sixty-one, he 
will point to the American Flag, which will 
hang in every school room — not on top of the 
building alone, but in every room where it 
will be before all grades and classes, to see 
and study scientifically, in connection with 
creative order and man's relation to the In- 
finite He will point to the forty eight stars; 
then, he will call attention to the thirteen 
stripes. Then there will be a very simple 
exercise in addition. Add the thirteen stripes 
to the forty eight stars and the answer is 
Sixty One. Here it is in plain numbers on 
the Flag. The next question is — "Why are 
there forty eight states in the Union?' Here 
is more history of great importance — Why 
are there forty eight states? Here is some 
thing that will be of interest, as a life study. 



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Not m America alone, but to every nation. 
Yes, there are forty eight states and forty 
eight stars. But why is this so? 

Go back to the sixteenth president, born 
on the twelfth day of the second month, which 
has already been read for you. Three times 
sixteeen are forty eight and four times twelve 
are forty eight. Here are the states, and here 
are the stars. Look at the year, 1809, in 
which the President was born. 

In presenting the spirit of '61 the teacher 
will always have God's code number before 
him. The tribes of the wilderness and the 
disciples and the fast are connected with the 
spirit of '61. Forty and twelve are fifty two. 
Add th ; s number to 1809 and the answer is 
1861. Here, the age of the President is in 
exact harmony with numbers connecting God 
with man, stopping on 1861. Here is the 
spirit that saved the union, having forty eight 
states represented by fotry eight stars. There 
is no end to a reading where the foundation 
rests upon the Infinite Spirit. The American 
Flag is the coming foundation of the American 
school, the American home and the American 
church. The Flag is not only a condensed, 



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but an illustrated history of personal and 
world relations. There is no emblem express- 
ing so much or showing so much to guide man. 
There is no stopping place in connection with 
its meaning. 

This reading does not show anything in 
comparison to what can be, and will be shown, 
in connection with the Flag and the code. 
To be the Saviour of a country, there must 
first be a country to save. George Washington, 
called the Father, has a place under the code 
that is without flaw or break. He will be 
read next with others forming a continuous 
chain from the Beginning to the coming of 
world harmony. 

World conditions have awakened world 
thought on world peace which will come when 
man follows God's way to reach it It will 
come when he fo lows the law on which har- 
mony rests 'Do unto others as you would 
have others do unto you.' 1 This every day 
common sense is the foundation of the Christian 
religion. 

I am not a Spiritualist, neither am I a prayer 
meeting crank. I do not believe the blind 
can lead the blind in prayer any better than 



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any where else. If you know the law, and 
the reason for the law, and you keep the law, 
that is all there is to it — all that can be done. 
If this does not satisfy, then you are out of 
line with existence. When this is the state, 
you are recommended to pray in your closet — 
not on the street corner. 

Without knowledge of the law, darkness is 
the natural condition and all the prayers, that 
were ever made, or can be made, cannot change 
man 's relation to creative order. This is some- 
thing fixed by a real creator to be carried out 
by real service under fixed laws. When this 
is done, you can be called truly relig'ous and 
highly moral. Complying with the aw will 
reach an end that is grand and glorious — open 
to all. The way to reach it, is by signs on the 
star — which is a self regulating time keeper. 

It was by the star that wise men were guided 
to find the child at Bethlehem. By this same 
sign, all mankind will be guided to meet the 
same child, now a strong man, when he returns 
as a world Saviour. When those praying to 
God for help and guidance know more about 
the scientific place and use of the star, and can 



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read the code we will be living in a different 
world from the one we are now in. 

How many can tell by the length and num- 
ber of God's footsteps just where the world 
is at in time measure? Knowing this is like 
having the day and month before you on a 
calendar — or looking at your watch to tell 
the hour. 

If these facts were generally known they 
would appear in the work of those now blindly 
trying to solve world problems. The way is 
clear and can be easily understood by those 
who take the time and trouble to look into it. 

Man is not asked to follow anything only 
that which God puts before him. When he 
follows the way that God leads there is no such 
thing as getting lost. It makes no difference 
where the start is made. If the sign marks 
are present, that is all needed. Whether it 
is number marks on a baby — God's footsteps — 
the fast of Christ, or the years in the wilderness, 
all are from the same light that brought the 
Eastern Star, that shines over every silent 
grave. 

Knowing the way is not enough. A great 



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work must be done in the right spirit by real 
hands to bring the right end. The drawback, 
as it has always been, is too much talk and 
too little united effort. As it is a work in 
which not only all man kind, but God is in- 
terested, the plan must be one where God and 
man can work together. This can be done 
by following God's footsteps from the birth 
of His son to the day of His return. So far 
God's footsteps only cover a little more than 
four star zones; just enough over to reach 
ground on which human feet never tread 
before. This is why man feels lost and mixed 
up. He is on new ground in a world upside 
down. Man is on new ground at the most 
important period in the history of time. Never 
since the days of Creation has there been a 

period where so much depended on intelligent 
action. 

Thanks to Heaven — it is not all left to man 
alone. There is a leader to follow to reach 
that needed. Footsteps are the easiest and 
most- natural of all things to follow — especially, 
where God has fixed the measurements; and 
all you have to do is count — which a six year 
old can do. Forty times twelve covers the 



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time and distance on one star zone — this is 
God's arrangement, not man's. All man has 
to do is to follow the way to reach the right 
place. Forty steps cover one zone, eighty 
cover two, one hundred and twenty cover 
three, one hundred and sixty cover four. 
Twelve times one hundred and sixty brings 
us to the year 1920, just passed. 

At midnight on the first day of January, 
1921, man passed on to a new star-zone. He 
entered upon year one, under star one, on the 
fifth and last zone. On every star there are 
five points with five spaces between. One 
hundred and sixty steps took God over four 
zones — here are still forty steps left to cover 
the fifth — or millenial division of the star — 
which is four hundred and eighty years, 
the same as the other zones. On five zones 
there will be two hundred steps. This will 
be the end of time measure on the star. This 
will bring man to. he year A. D. 2400 — to the 
the time when centuries will be in harmony 
with the hours of the day, when twenty four 
hundred years will be as twenty four hours. 

Man has four hundred and eighty years 
on the millenial division to study and prepare 



52 The Hand of God 

for the coming of the Prince of Peace. Christ 
is not coming in a sudden burst — without suf- 
ficient notice in advance to prepare for His 
coming. Four hundred and eighty years is 
only a reasonable time. He will then return 
by the star, the same as He came. The most 
horrible of al. things that could take place 
would be, to have the resurrection come sud- 
denly, when neither the living or the dead 
were prepared to meet each other. If all 
the dead should rise up at once and swarm 
over the earth, there would not be enough 
to give them one meal. 

The relation between the seen and the un- 
seen is worthy of all consideration as a study. 
The resurrection has been a matter of thought 
so long, it is assuming a settled place in the 
mind of man. It is not something to think 
about in just an imaginary way; it is something 
to study and work at, on the lines of science, 
as a coming reality. 

Man has a part in helping resurrect himself 
as well as others. With a light before him 
for four hundred and eighty years, he will 
feel very much at home with the Invisible at 
the end of that time. 



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World harmony is coming like the Stars 
and Stripes, through the order of time. Great 
changes have come and greater are coming. 
There is so much to think about and say on 
that which has come and is still coming, that 
only coming generations can cover the work. 
The most important thing to say here is,— 
"There is Light ahead". 

It is a wonderful condition that shows the 
necessity of 'team work' between man and 
God. It is a wonderful light that makes this 
clear. But the most wonderful of all, is being 
shown and told the way to work with and 
under God — and how to find Him. 

I am not a prophet. All statements here, 
rest upon mathematical harmony with God's 
teachings and the never chang'ng stars. This 
is science, not guess work. God's foot steps 
are good enough and sure enough to follow: 
especially, when He is marching at the head 
of all generations living and dead, under the 
Flag that bears the evidence of His hand 
and name 

The word, is ^Advance" — not for one, but 
for every one to get into the line of march 
to achieve a great victory — the victory of world 



54 The Hand of God 



peace You ask, ''Who brings the message?' 
This makes no difference as long as the order 
is from the Supreme Commander, the one 
who brings it is immaterial. An A. D. T. 
boy is the carrier of messages — not the one 
who writes and sends them. My part is 
simply the delivery of an order — not the com- 
mander to give it. It cannot be all talk" — 
'Faith without works is dead.' I, was not 
only told to deliver the 'advance' order, but 
to call for volunteers and begin organizing for 
the work. Without a beginning every thing 
would forever remain ' ' without form and void. ' 

I am particularly directed to call aitention 
to God's first words to man — "Be fruitful 
and multiply and replenish the earth and 
subue it and have dominion. ' This command 
covers every thing that moves or flies. 'Be 
fruitful and multipy. ' Paupers and idiots 
are not in this class — only those who are ' ' fruit- 
ful" are told to multiply. He is told the way 
to become fruitful is by replenishing the Earth 
and subduing it. The way is made so clear — 
a fool cannot mistake, or fail to understand it. 
Go out on the Earth and go to work and be- 
come "fruitful.' This will settle every thing. 



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I am directed by the power that is over me 
to call attention to the fact, that not one step 
has been taken or a single move made to orga- 
nize under God's first words to man to gain 
dominion. Volunteers are now called for to 
start the work. There are many educational 
institutions on Earth, but there is not only 
room, but a call for one more — to teach God's 
number code and sign reading on the star. 

To comply with the law, only forty volun- 
teers are asked for; not thirty nine nor forty 
one, just forty — no more, no less. These vol- 
unteers are not wanted to perform hard labor 
— they are not wanted for counsellers, to tell 
me what to do, or how to do it. One who 
left the earth over five hundred years ago is 
attending to all that. Forty are wanted to 
stand as living representatives of infinite truth. 
They are wanted for soul matter in the work 
of infinite building — where man is something 
more than a hod carrier and a stone breaker. 
They are wanted as the living expressions of 
intelligence through which only building can 
be carried on. Forty is a building law, fixed 
by God with far reaching connections; with 
musical and mathematical harmony with the 



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star; which no other number has. Multiply 
the eight notes in music by the star, and the 
answer is forty. Here is cause and here is 
reason. 

I am given the name to call the organization. 
It is to be known as the A. W. B. Association 
or order. A. W. B. means assistant world 
builders. It means God is the head, man is 
the assistant. Man alone can not be called 
a world builder. He can gain that promised 
by carrying out God's command to subdue 
the Earth. It is not men, it is not money, 
that is needed ; the only thing needed to bring 
world peace is the right spirit. When this 
prevails there will be world harmony. Like 
everything else spirit rests upon natural law. 
Spirit begets spirit, the same as anything else 
breeds. The object of organization is a start 
to breed the right spirit. 

The fast of forty days is a good foundation 
to rest upon. To take up this work scientifi- 
cally in a practical way to meet world condi- 
tions is the call. Forty volunteers are wanted 
for this end and this only. The object is 
worthy of the call. The call is one never 
before made, that is why the world is now up- 



The Hand of God 57 



side down. Not enough attention has been 
paid to the cultivation of the right spirit. It 
is not too late to start. Now is a good time 
to begin, for conditions show the need of it. 

The right spirit covers all. All can see this. 
A foundat on common to all is the one to build 
on. Making the Earth more beautiful by 
subduing it to gain dominion is a God given 
proposition. The way to world peace and 
happiness is an open door. The most important 
and the least expensive of any educational 
institution on Earth, is the one that stands 
for the work of world building. The only 
school that teaches God's wireless, and time 
reading is His finger point ng to the star. 

If any of this looks strange, unnatural, and 
impossible, take plenty of time to think it 
over. It will keep, and if you can never reach 
a conclusion, thinking about it will not hurt 
you any. There is no effort in the way of 
converting you to something new and leading 
you into strange parts. Father Time is a 
straight, steady hard puller, and he will carry 
you along with the rest of them. Do not 
write any letters asking questions, for not one 
will be answered. This publication contains 



58 The Hand of God 



all there is to say to you at present. The 
next will contain more. There are millions of 
good men and women ready and anxious to 
help save the world and keep it saved. The 
only thing is to get united action. Every 
American ought to be willing to follow the 
American Flag, that is, if he is an American. 

This emblem was picked for me by the 
Invisible. I was told to take it and start; 
that the spirit of the Flag would carry the 
work through. It has never failed yet to 
bring r'ght results and never will, as long as 
there is a God in Israel; and that will be for- 
ever. It is on y a blind and ignorant fool 
standing by the wayside who talks lost civiliza- 
tion. Man has been in many places where 
he could not see his way out when a way was 
suddenly opened to him. As a walking Sup- 
erintendent of the Universe, God is not asleep. 
He knows just what is going on and that 
everything will change like a flash when the 
light is turned on. Man is now in darkness 
as to reasons and real conditions There is 
plenty of time to think and prepare to make 
things better if you will only go at it. 

There are forty eight states in the union. 



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If each state should selecte a representative 
to be a member of the peace organization, 
eight of them would have to be refused seats 
because Forty is a law that can not be changed 
for either love or money. If Christ could be 
asked why He fasted forty days, what do you 
suppose He would say? He would point to the 
law and the star zones and his twelve living 
units, by which he can be found and located 
today to the fraction of a minute. He is a 
builder against time, the same as the Father. 

I have nothing to do with the success or 
failure of this work. I could not do it on my 
own account, and I can not claim credit if 
there is any credit to receive. Every one, as 
well as myself, is interested in an honest deal. 
If there is any such thing as being directed 
by an unseen power, let it appear on its merits, 
and let every one have a chance to judge. 
The greatest and most important of all questions 
is being able to see and recognize the Hand of 
God — that is all needed as a world regulator 
and a nation saver. 

The price of a life membership is $120. 
One hundred and twenty are the octaves in 
hours in forty days — the musical harmony 



60 The Hand of God 

between life and time. Christ was listening 
to the music of time when carrying on His 
fast. He was not lonesome, He had the stars 
to sing to Him and entertain Him, as they are 
singing and entertaining now. If you send 
in the coupon, and never hear from it, do not 
think it is on account of any personal objection. 
No money is asked and none will be received 
until forty names are accepted. Remember 
that is a world organization; not any thing 
local. It is one that is going to take time to 
. start, if a start can be made. The forty volun- 
teers are wanted to receive special instruction 
as to the Laws of Moses, which are grand, 
beautiful, and interesting as a study. 



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Fill out the following coupon and your name 
will be entered for admission to the Order of 
World Builders. Put it down male or female 
as the case may be. 



Budd Reeve, Buxton, North Dakota, — You 
are requested to notify me when the book is 
open for membership in the Order of World 
Builders. 

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It is not a passing thought. It is the 
real substance on which thought rests and 
from which it comes. 

As long as man can see, think and read, 
the Hand that formed all things and holds 
all things, will grow in interest and importance 
as man grows in spirit to understand and 
appreciate the source and support of all life— 
especially the infinite. 



